TAIYO YUDEN’s
Business Model
The TAIYO YUDEN Group’s business activities
center on the development, manufacture, and
sales of electronic components.
Capacitors
Main products:
roducts:
Capacitors are used in a wide variety of electronic equipment to temporarily store
electricity and remove electronic noise. TAIYO YUDEN excels in producing small,
high-capacitance multilayer ceramic capacitors, which are best suited to cuttingedge compact, ultrathin digital devices. Large numbers of smartphones, tablet
devices, and other devices use these products.
Multilayer
yer ceramic capacitors
Ferrite and Applied Products
Main products:
The main products of the Ferrite and Applied Products segment are inductors
used in electronic equipment power and high-frequency circuits for blocking
alternating current while allowing direct current to pass through.
Wire-wound chip inductors,
multilayer chip inductors,
ferrite chip beads,
common-mode choke coils
Integrated Modules & Devices
Main products:
The Integrated Modules & Devices segment’s main products are FBAR/SAW
devices for mobile communications, frontend modules, and power supply
modules. The FBAR/SAW devices are used primarily in smartphones to enable
high-speed data communications and high-quality voice communications.
FBAR/SAW devices for mobile
communications, power supply
modules, high-frequency
modules, embedded-parts
multilayer wiring substrates
Other Electronic Components
Main products:
The Other Electronic Components segment develops and brings to market a
variety of energy devices used as backup power equipment for smart meters and
other similar products, and peak current assistance for LED flashes.
Lithium ion capacitors, polyacene capacitors
Optical Media Products
Main products:
The Optical Media Products segment produces CD-Rs, DVD-Rs and BD-Rs.
CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, and BD-Rs
Others
The Other segment primarily involves the design and mounting of print circuit
boards done at a subsidiary company.
TAIYO YUDEN Annual Report 2015